Pope Francis, the first Latin American pontiff, was as much a tireless advocate for nature as he was the poor and ...

Just as Luke Skywalker watched two suns set from his sandy home planet Tatooine, a newly discovered planet called 2M1510 is ...

More than any other pope, Francis incorporated the best scientific conclusions into his teaching on the environment; he ...

Seismic waves from earthquakes have always offered a window into Earth’s hidden interior. For decades, researchers believed ...

The exoplanet K2-18b is generating headlines because researchers announced what could be evidence of life on the planet. The ...

Earth Day acts as a celebration of the inhabitable planet that provides life for billions; the cover of lush forests, ...

It all exploded in late 1969 when Heritage’s mother died suddenly. Overcome by grief and exhaustion, Heritage found it ...

In his landmark 2015 encyclical “Praised Be,” Pope Francis cast care for the planet as an urgent and existential moral ...

A new analysis by UC Boulder geologists suggests the ancient Mars landscape was formed by falling precipitation, including ...

Hundreds of marches, pickets, and cleanup events are taking place across the US in the run-up to Earth Day on Tuesday, as ...

At Scripps Institution of Oceanography, marine biogeochemist Amina Schartup is investigating the impact of changing ocean ...

“The earth loses a defender,” wrote the Mapuche Confederation of Neuquén, an Indigenous rights organization in Argentina, on ...